Rule
29L of Mines Rules 1955 |
FORM P1 |
Medical standard of fitness for reasons to be employed in mines |
1. The person should be
in good mental and bodily health and free from any physical defect likely to |
interfere with his
efficient employment in a mine. Due allowance in the standard should be made
for the |
age of a candidate. |
2. Locomotor system: |
The limbs should be well formed and developed and the function of all
the limbs |
should be within normal
limits. Any deformity should be recorded. There should be no deformity or |
paralysis, which may
interfere with his efficient employment in a mine. Any deformity noted should
be |
recorded. |
3. Skin: |
There should be no evidence of extensive and chronic skin disease or
ulceration. |
4. (a) Distant vision of
eye with or without glasses should be not less than the following standard :— |
For workers employed For
workers employed on surface and in below ground |
opencast workings |
1. Better eye . . . . .
. . . 6/12 6/6 |
2. Worse eye . . . . . .
. . 6/18 6/9 |
(b) Night blindness
should be tested in special cases only in underground workers where |
the examining authority
considers it necessary. |
(c) A person having only
one eye which functions normally should not be employed |
below ground. For
employment on surface, the vision of such a person in the other |
eye should be 6/12 with
or without glasses. A person will be considered uniocular |
when there is physical
loss of one eye or when there is functional loss of vision of one |
eye. |
(d) Colour blindness
will be tested only in special cases, where the job requires good |
colour discrimination.
Only low-grade colour perceptions will be tested with Edridge |
Green’s lantern. |
(e) There should not be
squint where binocular vision is essential. |
(f) There should not be
any organic disease of the eyes which is likely to affect the |
distant vision within a
period of five years. |
5. Hearing should be
good. Any progressive disease effecting hearing should be recorded. The |
candidate should be able
to hear conversational voice from a distance of 3 metres. |
6. Speech must be
without serious impediments. |
7. (a) Respiratory
system should be sound and free from any chronic latyngeal bronchical |
pulmonary disease.
Tuberculosis of lungs if not active should not be a disqualification. |
(b) A full sized
postero-anterior chest radiograph (large enough to include thoracic inlet |
and both costophrenic
angles) obtained by an X-ray machine of at least 300 mA |
strength shall be
evaluated in the manner specified by the Chief Inspector and Lung |
function tests
(spirometry) to record forced vital capacity (FVC) and forced expiratory |
volume in one second
(EFVI) should be made and there should not be any evidence |
of active pulmonary
disease. |
8. Circulatory
system: |
There should be no evidence of cardic or vesuclar disease which may |
interfere with his
efficient employment in a mine. |
9. There should not be
any evidence of disease of abdominal organs, which is likely to affect his |
efficient discharge of
duty in a mine. |
10. In case the
candidate has hernia he may be declared fit after he has been successfully |
operated for the same. |
11. Hydrocele if present
should not be large enough to impede the normal activities of the |
candidate. In such cases
he may be declared fit after being successfully operated. |
12. The nervous system
should be sound. Persons with history of epilepsy or any other type of |
organic or historical
fits should not be declared fit for employment in a mine. |
13. The medical
examination should include examination of urine. Mere presence of albumin and |
sugar in the urine
without any gross organic disease producing signs and symptoms should not |
be a disability. |
14. Skiagram of the
chest should also be obtained. If it is necessary the medical officer may
direct |
the candidate to obtain
the result of special tests or/and the opinion of a specialist from |
recognised
institution/hospital. |
Note: Candidates with
colour Blindness are likely to be rejected by the employers. |
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